Mushroom hunting with LLMs: what can go wrong?
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#2Repo for reproducible science: https://github.com/stared/mushroom-hunting-llm-bench
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#3Trusting an LLM with a decision that can potentially be fatal is a good Darwin test I suppose.
Sadly I don’t think the general populace understands that LLMs are unreliable. (And even people in tech can vastly overestimate the capabilities.. at least judging by the insane spending on them).
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#4the interesting question is: what is the barrier we need to cross to trust LLMs with stuff like this? we'll probably cross the barrier but I'd have a hard time setting a true percentage success boundary
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#5the interesting question is: what is the barrier we need to cross to trust LLMs with stuff like this? we'll probably cross the barrier but I'd have a hard time setting a true percentage success boundary
We'll cross it around the same time we hand over nuclear reactor and airplane control systems to LLMs.
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#6I think the more important question is: have people really run out of interesting flavors at their local stores and restaurants, that they are so obsessed with eating things they find growing on the ground?
I’ll never understand mushroom culture.
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#7I think the more important question is: have people really run out of interesting flavors at their local stores and restaurants, that they are so obsessed with eating things they find growing on the ground? I’ll never understand mushroom culture.
Some mushrooms like chanterelles can't be reliably farmed, and are quite tasty! I love being able to spend a day hiking and coming back with a meal.
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#8Considering that some mushrooms need a spore print to tell them apart, I'd say that you can't ever trust an LLM.
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#9the interesting question is: what is the barrier we need to cross to trust LLMs with stuff like this? we'll probably cross the barrier but I'd have a hard time setting a true percentage success boundary
Around the same time the LLM also faces an existential risk when its advice is wrong.
Not trusting my life to an “intelligence” that has nothing to lose.
Re: Mushroom hunting with LLMs: what can go wrong?
#10I think the more important question is: have people really run out of interesting flavors at their local stores and restaurants, that they are so obsessed with eating things they find growing on the ground? I’ll never understand mushroom culture.
You can't really understand until you've tasted choice mushrooms, the only one of which is findable in stores is the bolete, and even that's usually dry and tells terrible quality.
I used to go in the forest and find maybe 5 types of really tasty mushrooms, come back with enough for the whole family. Add some cheese and some onions and it's Michelin star in the mountains.